A Boy Named Julia - _TNY_1356
This gorgeous butterfly with the elongated wings is a male Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia).
I found it sitting (standing?) completely still on a very low leaf at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, when visiting with my son on his autumn holliday.
That low down, the light wasn't very bright but since this was shot on tripod (w/ a wired remote shutter) and Mr. Julia was completely still, I was able to use a very long exposure time to allow for an acceptable ISO and depth of field.
Normally, I dare go as low as 1/6s or 1/4s exposure time, but here I decided to really go for it and went for a whopping 4 seconds - which as you can see still yielded a sharp image while providing enough light to use f/9.5 at ISO400.
A Boy Named Julia - _TNY_1356
This gorgeous butterfly with the elongated wings is a male Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia).
I found it sitting (standing?) completely still on a very low leaf at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, when visiting with my son on his autumn holliday.
That low down, the light wasn't very bright but since this was shot on tripod (w/ a wired remote shutter) and Mr. Julia was completely still, I was able to use a very long exposure time to allow for an acceptable ISO and depth of field.
Normally, I dare go as low as 1/6s or 1/4s exposure time, but here I decided to really go for it and went for a whopping 4 seconds - which as you can see still yielded a sharp image while providing enough light to use f/9.5 at ISO400.